A short thread on surviving/thriving thru the winter, key SaaS metrics, 'bull market geniuses' and India's right to win

@BlumeVentures

1/n Amongst the universe of SaaS metrics, most key

1) New dollar retention (NDR) - with high customer churn & low switching costs, more imp than ever to retain existing user bases
2) Net New Revenue (aim for >50% growth rates)
3) Payback period (sales efficiency for user acq)

2/n

A short thread on a few topics

That touch our startup ecosystem

Penned over the long weekend here in 🇮🇳 1) Hiring

Its interesting to probe founder self-awareness & emotional maturity

Whats your superpower?

What are the superpowers you *don't* have, that you'll look to fill in these hires?

Its easy to have an answer (many!) to the first question,
Rarer for the second

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1/ sharing a few reflections

over a week of travel & some “aerial/artistic” inspiration this weekend

Yesterday,
15 hours
3 airports
6 hours in the air
and a Sat even w/ Blumiers

also a year younger from recent b’day :) ...

@BKartRed @AshishFafadia @sajithpai @arpiit 2/. increasingly marveled by the agility/speed of “thinking to action” from best founders today

In contrast, 1-2 decades ago, many of us often thought “linearly” - engg/MBA/corp/ops exp - *then* launched startups

Today’s founders have an innate capacity to “parallel process”